The Art of War or The Wedding Banquet? Asian Canadians, Masculinity, and Antiracism Education

Ongoing debates about Chinese masculinity could broaden antiracism educa- tion, whose hegemonic Black/White paradigm of race relations and “model mi- nority” stereotyping of Asians currently often exclude Asian North Americans. Juxtaposing Ang Lee’s film The Wedding Banquet with the viewpoints of Asian American feminists such as Maxine Hong Kingston and Asian American male revisionists such as Frank Chin also points to problematic essentialist ideas of race and masculinity and zero-sum notions of power. Antiracism education should increasingly employ Foucauldian notions of power, ruptures within “commun- ities,” and the fluid character of identity. Les débats actuels au sujet de la masculinité chez les Chinois pourrait élargir les horizons de l’éducation en matière d’antiracisme dans la mesure où le paradigme hégémonique Blancs/Noirs des relations entre les races et l’application du stéréo- type de « minorité modèle » aux Asiatiques excluent souvent à l’heure actuelle les Nord-Américains d’origine asiatique. La juxtaposition du film The Wedding Banquet d’Ang Lee aux points de vue des féministes américaines asiatiques comme Maxine Hong Kingston et de révisionnistes américains asiatiques de sexe masculin comme Frank Chin souligne en outre l’existence d’idées essentialistes problématiques de race et de masculinité et de notions de pouvoir engendrant une situation de gagnant-perdant. L’éducation antiraciste devrait faire appel aux notions fou- cauldiennes de pouvoir, aux ruptures au sein de « communautés » et au caractère fluide de l’identité.

Issue 1: Anti-Black Racism, Bio-Power, and Governmentality: Deconstructing the Suffering of Black Families Involved with Child Welfare

This article focuses on how colonialism, anti-Black racism and white supremacy are embodied by Ontario’s child welfare system in relation to narratives of suffering experienced by Black families involved with this sector. We discuss how these experiences are an embodiment of the Foucauldian concepts of bio-power and governmentality. Understanding this embodiment is crucial for deconstructing how anti-Black racism, colonialism, and white supremacy are manifested in the day-to-day policies and practices of child welfare. To explicate these policies and practices we discuss three inter-related factors: 1) the historical rise of the welfare state, 2) anti-Black racism, and 3) bio-power and governmentality

Biological predictors of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN): MASCC neurological complications working group overview.

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common and debilitating condition associated with a number of chemotherapeutic agents. Drugs commonly implicated in the development of CIPN include platinum agents, taxanes, vinca alkaloids, bortezomib, and thalidomide analogues. As a drug response can vary between individuals, it is hypothesized that an individual's specific genetic variants could impact the regulation of genes involved in drug pharmacokinetics, ion channel functioning, neurotoxicity, and DNA repair, which in turn affect CIPN development and severity. Variations of other molecular markers may also affect the incidence and severity of CIPN. Hence, the objective of this review was to summarize the known biological (molecular and genomic) predictors of CIPN and discuss the means to facilitate progress in this field

Migration and diving behavior of Centrophorus squamosus in the NE Atlantic. Combining electronic tagging and Argo hydrography to infer deep ocean trajectories

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Becoming Lost and Found: Peace, Christianity, and Anti-Oppression

This paper argues that interrogating the concepts of peace and forgiveness reveals tensions in anti-oppressive discourses around secularity versus Christian beliefs, as well as dogmatic tendencies in anti-oppression. Concepts such as peace and forgiveness are seldom engaged with due to anti-oppression’s regulatory framework that is premised on a secular/sacred binarism. Peace and forgiveness are concepts that can trouble the secular/sacred binary, render anti-oppressive identities more capacious, and augment discussions of self-reflectivity

Young women, silence and speech in "Hong Kong" Canada

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Issue 1: Anti-Black Racism, Bio-Power, and Governmentality: Deconstructing the Suffering of Black Families Involved with Child Welfare

This article focuses on how colonialism, anti-Black racism and white supremacy are embodied by Ontario’s child welfare system in relation to narratives of suffering experienced by Black families involved with this sector. We discuss how these experiences are an embodiment of the Foucauldian concepts of bio-power and governmentality. Understanding this embodiment is crucial for deconstructing how anti-Black racism, colonialism, and white supremacy are manifested in the day-to-day policies and practices of child welfare. To explicate these policies and practices we discuss three inter-related factors: 1) the historical rise of the welfare state, 2) anti-Black racism, and 3) bio-power and governmentality

Task Allocation for Event-Aware Spatiotemporal Sampling of Environmental Variables

Monitoring of environmental phenomena with embedded networked sensing confronts the challenges of both unpredictable variability in the spatial distribution of phenomena, coupled with demands for a high spatial sampling rate in three dimensions. For example, low distortion mapping of critical solar radiation properties in forest environments may require two-dimensional spatial sampling rates of greater than 10 samples/m2 over transects exceeding 1000 m2 . Clearly, adequate sampling coverage of such a transect requires an impractically large number of sensing nodes. A new approach, Networked Infomechanical System (NIMS), has been introduced to combine autonomous-articulated and static sensor nodes enabling sufficient spatiotemporal sampling density over large transects to meet a general set of environmental mapping demands.This paper describes our work on a critical parts of NIMS, the Task Allocation module. We present our methodologies and the two basic greedy Task Allocation policies - based on time of the task arrival (Time policy) and distance from the robot to the task (Distance policy). We present results from NIMS deployed in a forest reserve and from a lab testbed. The results show that both policies are adequate for the task of spatiotemporal sampling, but also complement each other. Finally, we suggest the future direction of research that would both help us better quantify the performance of our system and create more complex policies combining time, distance, information gain, etc